Store worker killed during argument over pizza order, investigators say
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- Oct 26, 2024
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Madison Moore, WISN via CNN Newsource
Published: Oct. 26, 2024 at 3:38 AM EDT
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MILWAUKEE (WISN) - A man is facing decades in jail for allegedly killing a Wisconsin store worker over a pizza.
The suspect is being held on a $200,000 cash bond at the Milwaukee County Jail.
Walking through the doors of the corner store on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Keefe Avenue will never be the same for Mohammad Owais; he’s back at work after someone shot and killed his brother, who was also a young father.
“I told my brother, ‘Please, I need help, like for an hour, hour-and-a-half.’ He told me, ‘I got you,’” Mohammad Owais remembered.
The store owner says during that time, Charles Leggett ordered a pizza.
“My brother served him and gave him the ticket. He went to the dude back there to make him the pizza. He gave him the ticket. I think the dude, he didn’t wear gloves or something,” Mohammad Owais said.
The employee who made the pizza is afraid to be identified, but he said he‘s “pretty sure” he wasn’t wearing gloves at the time.
“He went back to the front and he got the argument with the cashier in the front, and they had some words yelling at each other,” Mohammad Owais described. “And then I just hear a pop.”
Prosecutors say store surveillance video shows an argument at the counter, and then the gunman abruptly “puts the gun to Owais' chest.” He fired and killed 26-year-old Jamil Owais.
“He shot him here in his heart and he died soon,” Mohammad Owais said.
Jamil Owais, 26, was shot and killed during an apparent argument.
A Palestinian immigrant, Jamil Owais came to the U.S. in 2013, leaving behind a wife and infant daughter.
“It’s a big loss. He’s a good guy. He’s like my son when he came,” Mohammad Owais said. “He was a little boy. He grew up by me. That’s why this thing is hurting me too much.”
If convicted, Leggett faces up to 75 years in prison.
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